Dressing-case



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t DRESSING CASE. i No. 323,739. Patented Aug. 4, 1885.

IINiTn STATES `VArmar Prion.

ROCKWELL SAYER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

DRESSING-CASE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 323,739, dated August4, 1885.

1^ Application tiled July 15, 1882. (No modeLl I To all whom it mayconcern:

Be it known that I, ROCKWELL SAYER, a citizen of the United States,residing at the city of Chicago, in the county of Cook, in the State ofIllinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inDressing-Cases, which are fullyset forth in the following specification,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure lis afront elevation of my improved dressing-ease, the front of the wardrobeportion being partly broken away so as to show the clothes-hangingdevice. Fig. 2 is a section on the line x :n in Fig. l, the partitionbeing. partly broken through so as to show the clothes-hanging device.Fig. 3 is a section on the line y y in Fig. l looking downward, showingthe dressing-table, which slides out.

The same letters denote the same parts in all the iigures.

' My invention relates to household furniture, and particularly to thatclass of furniture in which a dressing-case is combined with a wardrobeand drawers and other receptacles and it consists in the several devicesand combinations of devices, which will be fully set forth hereinafter,and definitely pointed out in the claims, the object being to serve inone article of furniture a greater variety of uses, and those moreconvenientlythan in any construction or arrangement heretofore devised.

The idea of having a dressing-table in combination with a wardrobe andmirror and chiffonier distinguishes my invention from anythingheretofore produced, and renders it a dressing-case.

In the drawings, A denotes the wardrobe part of my improveddressing-case. Itis constructed of greater depth than is ordinary inhousehold wardrobes, thereby admitting garments to be hung in edgewiseto the front on shoulders, instead of crosswise. At a convenient heighta rod, A', supported at its ends is extended from side to side of it,about halfway between the front and rear. From this rod are suspended,atright angles to its length, a number of clothes-hanging bows or hooks,of a form already well known-such as to support the garment on twosides. These are arranged parallel to each other, and evidently ying thedoor of the wardrobe.

need be at very short distances apart, so that a much greater number ofgarments can be hung up than is possible with the ordinary arrangementof hooks at the same time that the shape of each garment is much betterpreserved, each is accessible without disturbing the others, and all arein view at once on open- A mirror, A2, with its frame constitutes thedoor of the wardrobe, and a drawer, B, may be arranged under it.

In the upper part of the chiffonier-division of the dressing-case is ashelved closet, C, which may be used as a book-case or for any otherpurpose that may be preferred. Below this closet are a series ofdrawers, D.

In place of one of the drawers D, at a convenient height, I set adressingtable, E,which also may be used as a writing-desk, arranged tobe drawn out a convenient distance, with pigeon-holes, Src., in` backpart, and having a hinged front, E, which hangs down when the`dressing-table is drawn out for use, and which stands up like the frontof a drawer, so as to close the space in front of the dressing-tablewhen it is pushed back. This device is illustrated by full and dotted.lines in Fig. 2. rIhe front piece, which obscures the dressing-tablewhen shut up, may drop down, when it is open, at right angles with thetable, as shown, or it may drop down only to a level with the table, andthereby form an extension to the table; or the space may be obscured byrollers or slides or other devices.

The dressing-table E is so constructed in connection with the chiffonierthat it can slide back into place with all of the toilet articles uponit,so that they are all protected ,when still on the dressing-table asfully as if placed in a drawer. v

The drawers, together with the dressingtable, may be locked at once bymeans of a cleat extending up and down at one side.

For a dressing-case, the arrangement just described is highlyconvenient, as a person can stand before the mirror and have theappliances of the toilet within easy reach of the hand.

The cornice G, that rises above the case in front for ornamentation, maybe constructed so that it may be moved to the back or front IOO atpleasure. Vhen on bael; side, as shown in Fig. 9, it leaves the front ofcase easy to be dusted off on top, and also accessible and useful as aplace to put books, papers, busts, &c.

Iain aware of the arrangements shown in Figs. SI5, 32S), and 340 ofTabbert & Shaws collection of designs for fashionable furnr ture,published by The Cabinet Maker and Art Furniture, No. 5 Finsbury Square,London, 188]; and I do not claim suoli an article of furniture as isrepresented in either of these figures. Neither of them shows a slidingdressing-table or a drawer with a hinged front, such as are combined inthe structure which I have described.

qWhat I claim as lnyinvention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is

1. An article of furniture comprising, first, a full-length Wardrobe, A,havnga door With a full-length mirror in its front; and, second, aehiiionier arranged at the side of the Wardrobe and provided with thesliding dressingtable E, having the hinged drawer-front E',substantially as and for the purposes described.

2. The cliifi'onier containing the drawers D, of ordinary construction,and the drawer E, having a sloping bottom, and the front E', hinged tothe bottom, substantially as and for the purpose described.

r ROGKVELL SAYER. lVitnesses:

JNO. C. llIAoGREGoR, II. D. HoLLis'rnR.

